Monday, 13 April 2009
Written by CHRISTOPHER SHAY AND KHUON LEAKHANA
The Phnom Penh Post
The Foreign Ministry shot back at criticism from a Cambodian NGO that accused Cambodian embassy officials in Malaysia of turning their backs on a family of six Cambodians who found themselves in legal limbo after losing their jobs.The ministry said that, despite a lack of cooperation from the family, the embassy was still able to ensure their return to Cambodia. "If the Cambodian embassy did not pay attention and help them, how could these people have returned to Cambodia? They would surely have been condemned over illegal immigration in Malaysia," a recent press release said. Ya Navuth, the executive director of CARAM - the NGO critical of embassy - said on Sunday it was CARAM's efforts, not the government's, that helped the family return home.
4 comments:
This Ministry of Foreign Affairs are very very, extremely corrupted. Just a small example, if you asked them to translate a document for official purpose, they charge US$20 per page. This is fine. But, it is strange that they stamp that this translated document is valid for one a specific country. Is the english translation will be different from one to another country??????????
You need to pay Hor Sothon US$8,000 to get a accountant post at a embassy, while the salary is around US$1,000. If you know how to SEN (khmer word) this family ministry, you can keep you job regardless of your performance. can you see, the ministry is trying to protect those royal family because she knows how to SEN him well. Otherwise, her embassador post will be replaced by someone else immediately.
In Malaysia to certified one document, we need to pay Khmer Embassy 100 RM, and no receipt.
That is why cambodia is one of the most corrupted countries in the world.
May be ah Hor nam Hong have help its people, the Vietnamese!
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